ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Architecture, metaphor and the mind
By John Onians
-Making and experiencing of buildings are are both associated with distinctive mental operations and this association is apparent in our use of language.
-Metaphors are used in architecture to articulate our thoughts because the processes of design relate to basic mental operations and basic psychological needs.
- Architectural metaphors are used to make us feel better in our bodies where operating through our mind. Architectural metaphors satisfy us mentally because they recall the unique way architecture satisfies us physically.
- There is a direct parallel between between the naming of a concept and the making of a physical mark on the ground is that is that the name and mark both permit the concept to be shared.
- There may be a precise correlation between man's ability to handle a growing body of knowledge and his need to build more and more complex buildings.
- The sympathy between architecture and the mind is biological.
- The most abiding architectural metaphors were those which saw knowledge and society as both requiring an architectural solidity.
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